“This man-made calamity—the great
liquidity crisis—has had the same
effect on the international [financial] system that the asteroid had on the
natural world… There will be an
extinction. Many, many species will not survive this change of atmosphere.”

—Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University
and the author of the recent book The Ascent of Money, speaking at the
School of Continuing and Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs

“The UN, which
embodies all that should be good about
international diplomacy, is suffering a crisis of
legitimacy in many parts of the world because it reflects the distribution of power in 1945, and not in 2015.”

—David Miliband, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what
matters should be in President Barack Obama’s “in-box”

“[The Large Hadron
Collider] will
reproduce, in a very small volume for a very short time, the conditions last seen
in the universe
when it was about
a 10,000th of a
second old in the
early moments of
the Big Bang.”

—Nobel Laureate and MIT physicist Frank Wilczek at the Inside-Out speaker series, sponsored by the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism institute

“Having courage to
look beyond your
own personal safety,
to realize a vision for
coming generations,
can cost you your life.”

—Her majesty Queen Noor of Jordan at an ecumenical dialogue on
compassionate leadership, sponsored by the Robert F. Wagner
Graduate School of Public Service